Welcome to R-Ladies St. Louis

Wrangling Data in the Tidyverse

October 11, 2022

Materials for tonight

What is R-Ladies?

  • R-Ladies is a world-wide organization with the mission of promoting gender diversity in the R community

  • Started in San Francisco in 2012 and now has 206 chapters and more than 93,000 members globally (check out rladies.org for a Shiny dashboard)

R-Ladies St. Louis

Started in September 2017 by Jenine Harris and Chelsea West

Co-organizers for 2022-23 include:

  • Jenine Harris (Washington University)
  • Mary Painter (University of Colorado, Boulder)
  • Shelly Cooper (Washington University)
  • Crystal Lewis (Freelance Data Management Consultant)
  • Laura Rose (Hinge Health)

2022 Fall Schedule

Each week in October we will be featuring an Introductory R topic during our OctobeR ExtRavaganza

  • Last Week: Wrangling Data in the Tidyverse with Joscelin Rocha-Hidalgo (Penn State)
  • TONIGHT: Intro to Iteration: for loops and functions with Merve Ileri Tayar (Washington University)
  • Monday Oct.17: Clinical reporting with gtsummary with Daniel Sjoberg (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
  • Thursday Oct.27: Intro to Quarto with Isabella Velasquez (Posit)

Announcements

  • We will be recording this talk

    • Feel free to turn off your cameras if you do not want to be recorded

  • Use the chat to ask questions (to everyone or directly to the host)


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About tonight’s speaker

  • Merve (she/her) is a doctoral student in the Brain, Behavior, and Cognition program in the Psychological & Brain Sciences Department at Washington University in St. Louis.

  • Her research mainly focuses on learning and transfer of attentional control settings, the influence of global and local expectations on the adjustment of attention, and multiple levels of cognitive control.

R-Ladies theme for Quarto Presentations. Code available on GitHub.